Traditional medicinal plants and malaria /
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| Imprint: | Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2004. |
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| Description: | 431 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Traditional herbal medicines for modern times ; v. 4 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6098423 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part 1. Traditional Medicine and Malaria Control
- Chapter 1. Malaria Control in Africa and the Role of Traditional Medicine
- Part 2. Case Studies of Plant-Based Medicines for Malaria
- Chapter 2. Cinchona
- Chapter 3. Artemisia annua as a Traditional Herbal Antimalarial
- Chapter 4. Changshan (Dichroa febrifuga)--Ancient Febrifuge and Modern Antimalarial: Lessons for Research from a Forgotten Tale
- Chapter 5. Ayush-64
- Chapter 6. Neem (Azadirachta indica)
- Chapter 7. Malarial-5: Development of an Antimalarial Phytomedicine in Mali
- Chapter 8. Cryptolepis sanguinolenta
- Chapter 9. Strychnos myrtoides: A Case Study of a Chemosensitising Medicinal Plant
- Part 3. Ethnomedical Research
- Chapter 10. Frequency of Use of Traditional Herbal Medicines for the Treatment and Prevention of Malaria: An Overview of the Literature
- Chapter 11. An Overview of Ethnobotanical Studies on Plants Used for the Treatment of Malaria
- Chapter 12. The Discovery of Indigenous Febrifuges in the British East Indies, c. 1700-1820
- Chapter 13. The Ayurvedic Perspective on Malaria
- Chapter 14. Guidelines for Ethnobotanical Studies on Traditional Antimalarials
- Part 4. Laboratory Research
- Chapter 15. Pharmacological Properties of the Active Constituents of Some Traditional Herbal Antimalarials
- Chapter 16. Guidelines for the Nonclinical Evaluation of the Efficacy of Traditional Antimalarials
- Chapter 17. Models for Studying the Effects of Herbal Antimalarials at Different Stages of the Plasmodium Life Cycle
- Chapter 18. Guidelines for the Preclinical Evaluation of the Safety of Traditional Herbal Antimalarials
- Part 5. Clinical Research
- Chapter 19. An Overview of Clinical Studies on Traditional Herbal Antimalarials
- Chapter 20. Observational Methods for Assessing Traditional Antimalarials
- Chapter 21. Guidelines for Clinical Studies on Herbal Antimalarials
- Part 6. Repellence and Vector Control
- Chapter 22. An Overview of Plants Used as Insect Repellents
- Chapter 23. Guidelines for Studies on Plant-Based Insect Repellents
- Chapter 24. An Overview of Plants Used for Malaria Vector Control
- Chapter 25. Guidelines for Studies on Plant-Based Vector Control Agents
- Epilogue: Prospects for the Future
- Glossary of Technical Terms and Abbreviations
- Index
